BROOKHAVEN LAB HOSTS MAGLEV CONTEST

Longwood Middle School students (from left, foreground) Gavin McIntyre,
Kaitlin Barbera and Ray Server were among some 250 Long Island students
who competed in the recent Ninth Annual Middle School Magnetic Levitation
Contest, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Brookhaven Lab employees (from left, background) Marty Woodle and Melvyn
Cowgill were among the volunteer judges in the contest in which students
built and raced model maglev vehicles. Both environmentally friendly and
fast, the magnet-driven transportation known as maglev was invented by Brookhaven
Lab scientists Gordon Danby and James Powell in 1968. The Maglev contest
was sponsored by Brookhaven Lab, Hofstra University, the Long Island Technology
Administration Association, the Nassau Technology Association and the Suffolk
Technology Education Association. Three of the seven first-place winners
in various categories were students from the Robert Moses Middle School
in North Babylon: Harold Lamm, Michael Faim and Lyndsay Goldberg. Also in
first-place were: Steven Masclopinto, from the South Ocean Middle School
in the Patchogue-Medford School District; Daniel Chenet, Center Moriches
Jr/Sr High School; Brandon Ashinoff, W.T. Clarke Middle School in East Meadow;
and co-builders Matt Litwin and Timmy Chung, Jericho Middle School.

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BETHPAGE STUDENT WINS SECOND PLACE IN MAGLEV CONTEST AT BROOKHAVEN
LAB

Jennifer Nucci, a student at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Bethpage,
won second place in the wind-power category in the Ninth Annual Middle School
Magnetic Levitation Contest, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven
National Laboratory. Both environmentally friendly and fast, the magnet-driven
transportation known as maglev was invented by Brookhaven Lab scientists
Gordon Danby and James Powell in 1968. Jennifer designed a model maglev
vehicle according to certain size and weight specifications, with the goal
being to design the fastest vehicle, carrying the greatest load with the
fewest magnets. About 250 Long Island students participated in the contest,
which was sponsored by Brookhaven Lab, Hofstra University, the Long Island
Technology Administration Association, the Nassau Technology Association
and the Suffolk Technology Education Association.